January 30 - February 24, 2018

Twelfth Night

Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck and forced to find their way in a strange new land on their own. Fortunately, Illyria holds much misadventure, love, and laughter for them both. This refreshing take on Shakespeare’s classic comedy will leave you rolling in the aisles and begging for a thirteenth night.

Calgary’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop is world-renowned for their wildly fantastical and brilliantly inventive designs. Combine their imaginations with Shakespeare’s wit, and Jillian Keiley’s direction, and the results are truly original and hilarious. You’ve never seen the Bard like this.-
Shari Wattling, Interim Artistic Director

Cast & Creative Team

ForTwelfth Night

Elsewhere: Anna is a Calgary-based actor, who most recently in Vertigo Theatre’s The 39 Steps. Other notable theatrical credits include Wait Until Dark, The Mousetrap, The Game’s Afoot, Vintage Hitchcock, and Gaslight (Vertigo), Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story (ATP), Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company), Book Club and Book Club 2 (Lunchbox), Sextet and Lungs (Verb Theatre), Tomorrow’s Child (Ghost River), and In The Wake (Downstage/Calgary Children’s Festival).

Anna has been nominated for numerous theatrical awards and has been lucky enough to take a few home.

Thank you to Craig, Olive and Aubrey for all their love and understanding.

Steve (Pityu) Kenderes is a visual artist who lives in Calgary, Halifax, and wherever the Trouts are touring. He has been building, performing, writing and directing puppet theatre for twenty years, and has travelled internationally with his work, in collaboration with his Old Trout brothers. He has built, designed and managed large-scale public sculpture projects, worked as a puppeteer for television, and as an art director for film. He has an MFA from the University of Calgary, and a BFA from NSCAD. Over the last few years he has been building his dream studio by hand, which is a 450 square foot tree house along a river in Nova Scotia. He is very grateful to share his life with his lovely partner Jennifer.